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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup |
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Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:18:37 +0200 |
On 23.08.2010, at 12:15, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 01:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 23.08.2010, at 11:25, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/23/2010 12:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>> Okay, okay. "But then there's a need explicitly not to instantiate it
>>>>> when modelling a 486 or lower".
>>>> ...plus the need to instantiate it (as a dedicated device) when modeling
>>>> 486 SMP.
>>> In short, if we want our model to be perfect, we have to fix reality first.
>> How about we don't care about the 486 case?
>>
>
> I certainly don't, but others may.
>
> However, the problem remains: every time real hardware doesn't fit our pretty
> model we'll drop support for that hardware?
No, every time real hardware doesn't fit out pretty model and nobody really
cares, we don't care.
Seriously - would you want to start off modeling everything so that EISA and
MCA fit in too?
Alex
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/23
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Jan Kiszka, 2010/08/23
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Alexander Graf, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup,
Alexander Graf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/22